Executive Summary The GLFC in its Vision Statement embraces the concept of " Healthy Great Lakes Ecosystems " and more generally ecosystem health as goals for the commission and its partners. However, current milestones are qualitative and not necessarily indicative of ecosystem health. A theme area is proposed to determine if the health concept can be usefully and objectively applied to ecosys...

Many software producing organizations do not know how to measure, compare, and analyse their governance policy in software ecosystems. Without sufficient insight into governance, these organizations cannot optimally perform as keystone players. This paper outlines a framework for the analysis of software ecosystem governance for individual companies. With such a framework, software producing or...

The concept of ecosystem health is derived from analogies with human health, which subsequently leads to the implication that the ecosystem has organismal properties, a 'superorganism' in the Clementsian sense. Its application and usefulness has been the subject of a contentious debate; yet, the term 'ecosystem health' has captured the public's imagination and woven its way into the current lex...

A health ecosystem is the aim of building a nice Loess Plateau with green mountain and clear river. This paper, taking Zhifanggou small watershed as an example, by using the AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) selecting the woodland and pasture cover, area of fundamental cropland, soil anti-scourability, soil organic matter, output/input, crop yield, net incomes of per capita and benefit of reduci...

Health care, in common with many other industries, is generating large amounts of routine data, data that are challenging to process, analyse or curate, so-called 'big data'. A challenge for health informatics is to make sense of these data. Part of the answer will come from the development of ontologies that support the use of heterogeneous data sources and the development of intermediate proc...

Using the field sampling data obtained in November 2012, the aquatic ecosystem health of river network in Hangzhou Bay New District in Ningbo was assessed with Plankton Index of Biology Integrity (P-IBI). In these samples, 125 species of phytoplankton and 19 species of zooplankton were identified and the dominant phytoplankton species of each sampling sites were almost pollution indicator speci...

Choosing a content management system on which you rely your business is challenging because they need a healthy software ecosystem in order to function efficaciously. Unawareness of this will result in content managers having uncertainty about the future suitability of their chosen content management system. This study describes an empirical, inductive approach by comparing the software ecosyst...